Editors note: Corrections have been made to the original article - KRIS 6 News has since learned that Paula Porter is not the only Black female funeral director. in Corpus Christi. Born and raised in ...

Dr. Valarie Richardson, Earl Richardson, Jr., and Alex Richardson, the owners of Richard Funeral Home are working with Dr. Antoinette Harrell, a respected historian and genealogist, to help preserve ...

Black funeral directors have long been a stable and stellar part of the African American community. But their role as elite and successful local business leaders is being exhausted by a growing number ...

CARRY ME HOME: Karla FC Holloway says her new book about African-American funeral practices must have been in her blood. But she never thought it would become a piece of her broken heart. She has ...

Julian Reeder’s family was hard to miss amid the sea of black-clad mourners at Riverdale’s Fountain of Faith Missionary Baptist Church one Friday in January. They were dressed in white, matching the ...